When: March 21, 2010                                  

   Location: Cascade Creek in Fairfax

   Time: 9am-11am

   Bring: binoculars and plenty of water.

Donation: $10 is suggested.

This is a Family Friendly walk and all ages/levels are welcome!

 "Of all the memberships we identify ourselves by the one thing that is most forgotten, and that has the greatest potential for healing, is place. We must learn to know, love, and join our place even more than we love our own ideas. People who can agree that they share a commitment to the landscape/cityscape -- even if they are otherwise locked in struggle with each other -- have at least one deep thing to share."

- Gary Snyder

Join us on a walk engaging the use of sight, sounds, and touch to connect us to a sense of place and explore what it means to protect where you live.

Participants will explore the headwaters of Fairfax alomg Cascade Creek in the Elliott Preserve and search for fry of this year's steelhead.  While discovering migratory songbirds, and a sense exploration along the way.

For further information on this walk contact RacheDeMicco( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ) Community Education Chair.

Click below to read about the Leader of this walk Paola Bouley.

Date: March 27th, 2010 

Time: 11am-3pm

Location: Sustainability Center 141 Bolinas Rd. Fairfax

Donation: $10 suggested

Join Sustainable Fairfax, this Spring Equinox for crafts, plants, seeds, chickens and good times! Kids have fun when parents get involved and have fun themselves.

This event will include:

• Recycled Craft Projects 

• Face Painting 

• Stilt-Walking Entertainer Kelly Moore

• Seed Swap: Bring yours and swap with others! 

• Plant Starts  

• Natural Egg Dying Demo     

• How to Raise Backyard Chickens 

All Ages are Welcome! Come for the chicks...stay for the fun!!

Special thanks goes out to our sponsors Iron Springs & Scoop for the Root Beer Floats.

Date: April 18, 2010
Location: Deer Park - Yolanda Trail
Time: 10:00am-1:30pm (could run over a bit)
 

Bring: Binoculars and your camera. Bring a lunch if you plan to stay all day (you don't have to stay for the entire walk), and always remember to pack plenty of water.

Rain: On rainy days, the walk will take place as scheduled. During extreme storms walks may be cancelled or modified for reasons of safety or comfort.

Donation: $10 is suggested.

This is a Family Friendly Walk & all levels/ages are welcome!

"To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or wildflowers in spring - these are".
~ John Burroughs

Join us on a walk and view the native richly colored expanse of spring wildflowers in Fairfax's wild trails, which are immensely diverse and awe-inspiring in their beauty. April is excellent for wildflowers in Marin.  The Deer Park area is no exception.  We will probably see Baby Blue Eyes, Douglas Iris, some Yerba Buena and some Milk Maids fading away.  We will also see Oak Trees, Redwoods, and Bay Laurel.  The creek in Corte Madera watershed should be running, and there will be some picturesque views. This local flora defines our landscape and offer Fairfaxian's a sense of place, pride and stability.

This walk is in collaboration with The California Native Plant Society (CNPS) and their mission is to protect California's native plant heritage and preserve it for future generations.

Click on Read More to Learn about our Leader Dabney Smith

On this past Sunday we gathered in our beautiful demonstration back yard at Sustainable Fairfax and delved into the topic of localizing our food.  We discovered the importance of relationship.  Our lives and our worlds are defined by relationship.  Relationship to ourselves our families our communities, and inherent in each of those is our relationship to the earth, the soil and our farmers.  We came away with a renewed inspiration to nurture those relationships and bring a sense of community and consciousness to our Holiday feasts as well as our everyday meals.

Paige Phinney from Marin Organic , Mindy of Good Earth and Richard from Farm Fresh to You graciously donated their time and energy and gave us a very thorough resource list for beginning and continuing the process of eating local. The simple action of localizing your food source has a powerful and important set of impacts

• Drastically Reduces Carbon Emissions  
• Builds local economy
• Builds local food security
• Builds soil
• Creates local jobs
• Improves seed-stock diversification
• Creates a sense of community and connection to the earth
• Reminds us of our natural rhythms and seasons
• Gives us the opportunity to participate in growing our own food

Peruse these links provided by Paige to really begin to take the 100 mile challenge, we really are what we eat! Bon Appétit 

Also remember that good old Good Earth is so wonderful to take the initiative to include information on where the food item comes from, they are doing the leg work for us so that we can be good citizens and make positive local choices.

www.marinorganic.org

www.marinorganic.org//p_tours.php

www.marinorganic.org/producer_programs.php

www.marinorganic.org/producers/producers_allstar.html

www.marinorganic.org/p_volunteer.php

Installing Raingardens with Sustainble Fairfax!

Despite Sunday Jan. 17^th’s rain, a dozen happy rain gardeners’ braved the elements, truly showing their commitment to improving our community by installing a rain garden at the Smiths’ Home in Fairfax.

We installed a 300 gallon rain catchment tank that would help maximize rainwater infiltration into the soil and mitigate flooding. Right away participants began digging; creating berms and mimicking natures dry creek swale by slowing, sinking and spreading the rain water throughout the landscape.

If you were unable to attend this workshop and/or would be interested in attending one in the future email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it  

On Sunday December 13th we had a fun and educational time with excellent naturalists in our beautiful Lagunitas Creek Watershed.  We saw endangered salmon spawning in the ink wells, digging nests and fighting for dominance in their colorful mating rituals.  We also learned more about our valuable watershed and how watersheds interact with one another.  We also shared tips on how we can make a difference in protectng the health of our communities via caring for our watersheds and their biodiversity.  We encourage you to contact SPAWN to learn more about your local watersheds.

Holiday Craft Fair

On Saturday, December 12 from 11:00am to 3:00pm at the Fairfax Woman's Center 46 Park Rd. we joined together Sustainable Fairfax, Fairfax F.O.C.A.S., and a number of talented and engaging local artists and we had a merry little craft fair!

  There were many unique and inspiring handmade gifts crafted by our talented local artisans to chose from.  Many of them are made of recycled and reused materials.  We had sustainable and green alternatives to gift wrap on hand.  And the young and young at heart had fun participating in seasonal and educational crafts and activities.  We served many amazing and yummy baked goods and seasonal libations.  Sustainable Fairfax even had a table and some wonderful gifts for sale and of course, as ever, lots of information and inspiration for free.  We would like to say "thanks" to Camille of F.O.C.A.S. and of course to all of the vendors who came out and made this event a real success for our community.  Thank you.  Lokking forward to next year.

Proceeds Supported Sustainable Fairfax,
F.O.C.A.S and our Talented Local Artisans.

Our Green Halloween was a SCREAM!

Our spooktacular family friendly event, in our boo-tiful Backyard, was visited by a terrible array of ghouls and ghosts, as well asmany beautiful fairy-like apparitions.  An aweful lot of frightful fun was had by all!

We enjoyed an array of Halloweenie activitiesincluding:

• Recycled Mask Making
• Recycled Craft Making
• Face Painting with Marti Kate from 12-1
• Miss Kitty leads us in Halloween and Harvest songs.
• Stilt-walking performed by local Kelly Moore
• Costume exchanges

And we enjoyed locally made & organic treats by Coco-Zen &Sjaak's!  Thanks!

This event is in collaboration with EcoMom Alliance and Green Halloween.org

Thanks to all who took part in our Sustainable Film Fest this summer!

 The films and speakers were well received by those who attended, and the sponsors provided great information in their displays. We had a wonderful time planning and presenting the events, and learned a lot in the process.

We'd like to extend a big THANK YOU again to those who volunteered their time to be part of the team, and to the speakers, who all donated their time and energy to create interesting, entertaining and educational events: Laura Allen, Greywater Guerillas; David Haskell, Garden of Eatin'; Tashai Lovington and Robert Lughai, producers and directors of Mad City Chickens; and Aaron Lucich, the filmmaker of We Are What We Eat.

We are considering additional film events in the future, so if you have films and speakers to recommend, please email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

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